Robert Frost's love of nature is expressed in the setting of his poem "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening." His elaborate description of the woody setting brings vivid images to the reader's mind. Frost explains the setting so descriptively that the reader feels he is in the woods alsoThe setting is a very important tool Frost uses in writing this poem. The setting is obviously in the woods, but these are not just any old woods. Something caught the speaker's eyes in these woods making them a special place for the speaker. It seems as if the speaker has associated these woods with an aspect of his "personal paradise". The peacefulness, tranquillity, darkness, and silence are all important parts of this "paradise". These aspects help the speaker escape from reality. The snow symbolizes the purity and peacefulness the speaker feels while stopping in the woods. (4) The darkness can symbolize many different things. Some times darkness would be considered evil or dangerous, but I do not think this is the case in this poem. I believe the darkness symbolizes the undisturbed atmosphere of the woods. Darkness may also symbolize the mystery of the yet to be discovered secrets deep within the woods. (8) The silence makes the speaker feel secluded from all other aspects of reality. (11-12) Stopping by the woods provides the speaker with a temporary escape from reality. Frost does not ever tell what business the speaker is on, but you can assume it may be very stressful. This escape from reality is very important even in today's world. This poem was written in 1923 and still has aspects of 20th century society. The speaker knows he can not stay in this "paradise".(14) The speaker does not want to leave this spot, but he has made other promises that he has to keep. (14) I believe Frost uses repetition of the last two lines of this poem (and miles to go before I sleep) to emphasize the importance of this promise he has made, and to support the...

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...moved his family to England to make a fresh start. There he concentrated on his poetry and published a collection called A Boy's Will in 1913, which won praise from English critics and helped him win a U.S. publishing contract for his second book, North of Boston (1914). The American public took a liking to the 40-year-old Frost, who returned to the U.S. when World War I broke out and bought another farm in New Hampshire. He continued to publish books and taught and lectured at Amherst, University of Michigan, Harvard, and Dartmouth, and read his poetry at the inauguration of President Kennedy. He also endured personal tragedy wy Evening." The poem, beginning with the famous line "Whose woods these are, I think I know. His house is in the village though," has introduced millions of American students to poetry.
Like most of Frost's poetry, "Stopping by Woods" adopts the tone of a simple New England farmer contemplating an everyday site. But Robert Frost was very different from the narrators he created. Long associated with New England and farming, Frost was actually born in California in 1874, where he lived until his father, a journalist, died when he was 11. His mother brought him to Massachusetts, where he graduated as co-valedictorian of his high school class. He attended Dartmouth and Harvard but didn't complete a degree at either school. Three years after high school, he married his fellow high school...

...“Stopping by Woods on a SnowyEvening” written by Robert Frost, was on of his most famous works. Robert Frost was an American poet but most of his poems were written while he was in England, and they were published there. “Stopping by Woods” is a great poem because it is easy to understand, but when you read it again there is something more to it. One begins ask is the author trying to say something else. Thus the reader has two ways to analyze this poem, the surface analysis and the deeper analysis. The reader is also able to learn that this poem has two main themes; choices and isolation.
The first stanza of the poem says “Whose woods these are I think I know/His house is in the village though/ He will not see me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow.” On the surface of the poem the reader understands that this man is traveling in the woods and he sees a house that makes him remember whose woods those are that he is traveling in. The speaker of the poem also says that he is not planning on staying in the woods. On a deeper level the reader beings to question why is he not going to stay in the woods. Is the traveler afraid of the owner of the woods, does he need to be somewhere, if so, where is it that he needs to be? Is one of his loved ones extremely sick that...

...you achieve this is, “A Sense of Place.”
Among these poems the focus will be entirely placed on “Stopping by Woods on a SnowyEvening” by Robert Frost. He was born on March 17th in 1874 San Francisco, California. Frost’s mother was of Scottish descent and his father’s origin was English. This particular poem of his was written in 1922 when Frost was at the age of 48. There were several things which caused him to write the way that he did. Some of them occurred much earlier within his lifetime but would have certainly stayed with him the whole time. Firstly, the deeper meanings of many poems which Frost had written had to do with god and Christianity and this derived from the strong religious education that his mother gave him. It played a major role in most of what he wrote and although this may be the case, he was ironically and outwardly ambivalent to religion. Robert Frost considered himself to be and I quote, “a freethinker”. This resilient man dealt with many tragedies even when he was very young. By the time he was 26, Robert had lost both of his parents and around the time “Stopping by Woods on a SnowyEvening” was written he had just admitted his sister Jeannie to a mental hospital. Perhaps this is why he had also used god in many of his poems: because he was turning to him as a last resort for guidance.
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...1. Stopping By Woods On SnowyEvening By Frost Essay, Research Paper
In "Stopping by Woods on a SnowyEvening," we have a man who stops in
the woods to watch the snow fall. The speaker finds these woods to escape from
the everyday stresses of life. My own interpretation is that the man finds
himself at a critical crossroad in his life and he flees to these woods to
reflect on his life. The woods that Frost illustrates are a representation of
heaven. Although the man is turning to God for guidance, he is neither in nor
near a church. Even still, he believes his location is irrelevant to God, who
ultimately listens no matter what. In the second stanza, the horse is only a
figment of his imagination. This "horse" is, in actuality, the
speaker’s own consciousness, a moment that we create something to relive the
stress of our deepest emotions. It acts as an internal censor to keep us close
to sanity, the value of life, and maybe even God trying to save his life. When
he comes "Between the woods and frozen lake," he finds that he is at a
crossroad in life. The speaker ponders what direction to take, whether to live
as the moral man that he is, or to take the easy way out by taking his own life.
Frost portrays "The darkest evening of the year," as the...

...Stopping by Woods on a SnowyEvening
Whose woods these are I think I know a
His house is in the village though a
He will not see me stopping here b
To watch his woods fill up with snow a
My little horse must think it queer b
To stop without a farm-house near b
Between the woods and the frozen lake c
The darkest evening of the year b
He gives his harness bells a shake c
To ask if there is some mistake c
The only other sound is the sweep d
Of easy wind and downy flake c
The woods are lovely, dark and deep d
But I have promises to keep d
And miles to go before I sleep d
And miles to go before I sleep d
In his book Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature (1975), Henry Widdowson describes the poem as a unique act of communication and a way language is patterned to create a unique message. “Patterns” are the product of repeated occurrences of linguistic forms, each pattern realizing a theme. The pattern Widdowson discerns in the first stanza of the poem is manifested by the “preponderance of pronominal forms”. He sees particular significance in the fact that the possessive adjective “his” occurs twice and “whose” once, leading him “to surmise that the theme of the poem as a whole has something to do with possession as well as something to do with the woods” (Widdowson, 1975, p.118). The possessive...

...Thesis:
"Stopping By Woods on a SnowyEvening" is a simple poem. Underneath the surface it has a slightly deeper meaning. Looking at the way the poem is written and what words are used will prove the underlying meaning of this poem
. Structure
b. Word content
c. Rhyme
d. Rhythmic structure
. Theme
a. Loneliness
b. Choices
c. Nature
. Setting
. Historical background
Conclusion:
As we have looked into this beautifully written poem, the reader can see the many layers that are a part of the simple looking poem. The unusual, song- like writing makes the poem have a complex aspect to it. The many ways to interpret it and the detailed picture that the poem presents prove the complexity of "Stopping by Woods on a SnowyEvening".
"Stopping By Woods on a SnowyEvening" is a simple poem. Underneath the surface it has a slightly deeper meaning. Looking at the way the poem is written and what words are used will prove the underlying meaning of this poem.
This poem is often considered very simple; part of the reasoning for that thinking is the words or vocabulary contained in the poem. Frost doesn't use extravagant words but limits the words to fewer than three syllables. There are 108 words with in this...

...When I heard that we were going to read "Stopping by woods on a SnowyEvening" by Robert Frost, I was extremely pleased, as I was very familiar with this it. I first read it as a child and it has ever since been my favorite poem. Explicating this poem gives a much deeper meaning than the words first indicate. The main underlying theme the poem explores is the wonder and sereneness of nature, while at the same time subtly pulling the reader away and towards the hustle and bustle of the modern world.
The denotative meaning this poem is a man with his horse and carriage stopping by woods on a snowy night. Just the title of this poem gives the reader a sense of calmness that comes with the image of a snowyevening in the woods. Frost could have used a different wording for his title of this poem, such as "Stopping the Carriage in a Forest During a Snowstorm on a Dark Night," but he chose the words snowyevening and woods for his title instead. I think that snowy is possibly the softest derivative for snow in the English language, it has no hash syllables. Evening is another word that is very soft and peaceful sounding, especially when combined with snowy.
In the first stanza, the man driving the horse describes stopping near...

...The poem "Stopping by the Woods on a SnowyEvening", by Robert Frost, is a short, yet intricate poem. What appears to be simple is not simple at all. What appears to be innocent is really not. The woods seem pristine and unimposing, however, they are described as being "dark and deep", and it is the "darkest evening of the year". He speaks of isolation, "between the woods and frozen lake" and of duty "But I have promises to keep". And also, Frost's usage of "sleep" easily implies death. Though this poem might come off at first to be nice and peaceful, however, that peace has an underlying menace.
In the first four lines of the poem, the speaker explains that he is trespassing on someone else's land. He does not expect to be seen, because the owner lives in the village, nor does he want to be seen, because, besides being on someone else's property, it would be out of character for him to be there. He is a man of the world who has promised his time to other people, so it seems unusual that he has stopped what he's doing to watch the woods. He knows who owns which pieces of land, or thinks he does, and his speech has a sort of pleasant familiar-ness, as in just "stopping by." The speaker says, "Whose woods these are, I think I know/ His house is in the village though." He is unsure of the owner in the first line, and then in the second...